“It’s a bit too complex perhaps?” asked Opal. “It leads through a single craquelure to another miniature painting which is in a balloon sort of shape where we can see some strange human-like beings with huge lungs who have just come out of the sea.” “This painting here in the centre at the bottom is us humans looking at the moon and wondering what life is all about,” continued Ed explaining what he saw to himself. It represents parallel universes of course!” Ed narrated. You’ve got these miniature paintings all connecting to other paintings through a system of painted craquelures. “Well Opal, you’ve done it again! This is splendid. “You know what Bren, I’ll call Ed Hundersford and ask him to come over and give me his opinion.” it looks like a good composition to me but, as you know, I’m no expert.” “Oh, there are no upside-down people this time!” exclaimed Brendan. She had brought down a picture she had been painting for the last three days. “What do you think, Brendan?” asked Opal. “Er., I wonder if it would work,” she mumbled to herself. People seemed to be disappearing from the market-place and Opal got out her sketch book and began drawing some strange shapes. “Yes, why not? I’ll pop over to your stall, Shazia, and see what you’ve got!” replied a more cheered up Ross. Do you need some fresh vegetables or fruit, Ross?” “The usual things, please, Shazia, new potatoes if you’ve still got some, broccoli, turnip tops, beetroot and fresh salad. Shazia, who had a vegetable and fruit stall, dropped by for a few minutes to take Opal’s order. parallel.” Opal remained silent for a while. Or maybe this is a parallel existence, I still don’t know.” Well, I was living a different sort of existence, it felt like a parallel existence, really. Fighting in a country you didn’t know much about before. You know, you feel differently about things when you’ve done what I did. “Well,” said Ross thoughtfully, “if I make enough money to pay for my expenses today I can count myself lucky. “I’ve made all sorts of new friends since I started selling books - and it’s brought me luck too!” A market stall seemed to be a good option.” I’d never done any selling or anything like that, so I thought of starting off with something uncomplicated. “I went through a bit of therapy as I was feeling depressed and it was suggested that I should try to communicate with people in a new sort of way. “You see, I’m an ex SAS and I had no idea what work I wanted to do.” Ross was beginning to open up. See what happens,” replied Ross who seemed to be a bit more animated than before. “How much are you going to charge for them, Ross?” I managed to find some other people who wanted to get rid of stuff and - here we are!” “Well, when my parents wanted to downsize their home, they thought of throwing out their old records but I had the idea of selling them at the market instead. How come you decided to sell vintage LPs, Ross?” asked Opal. “If you need more room for your books I can put some of my records back in the van if you like.” “My mother prepares my packed lunch and puts in a bit of everything she has in the house.” Soon Opal and Ross were sipping hot tea and munching jam tart. It’s still pretty cold even though it isn’t raining any more. As soon as I get settled, I’ll pull out my thermos and we can have a hot drink of tea, if you like. “You’re new here, aren’t you?” she asked him. “If you don’t mind sharing, I can give you half my space - I haven’t got a lot of merchandise anyway!” “Excuse me,” called out a rather bedraggled tired-looking red-headed man behind the stall opposite Opal’s usual place. #A STORM IN A TEACUP THERMOS FULL#“Sorry, but I’ve got nowhere to put you, the market’s full today!” replied the organiser. “Sorry Opal, but there’s been a burst drain pipe near your stall and it’s all water-bound!” #A STORM IN A TEACUP THERMOS TORRENT#Then suddenly the torrent stopped just as she arrived at the market place. “Rain wasn’t forecast at all,” Opal reminded herself. It was raining cats and dogs and Opal’s windscreen wiper was working overtime. We look forward to receiving your translation! If you need to add a column for the transliteration (in case of languages not written with the Roman alphabet), make it the central column so that the succession from left to right is: original language - transliteration - English. If you haven't got or can't use a HTML editor, copy this entire page to a new Word document, translate it sentence for sentence and then email us the complete Word document as an attachment. To translate a new Opal Story into your language just translate each individual sentence inside the empty cells of the Translation Template and email us the complete HTML page!
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